No one's ways : an essay on infinite naming / Daniel Heller-Roazen.
Homer recounts how, trapped inside a monster's cave with nothing but his wits, Ulysses once saved himself by twisting his name. Odysseus called himself Outis: "no one," "no man," or, to force a translation, "not-" or "non-one." The ploy was a success. He blinded his barbaric host and eluded him, and...
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New York :
Zone Books,
2017.
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| Physical Description: | 335 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Format: | Book |
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